Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah on Monday in Abuja cut the tape to signal commencement of commercial services for provision of wireless broadband services in as part of the provision of services in six states of the country by Gateway Business.

From left, CEO, GateWay Africa, Wally Beelders, MD, GateWay Nigeria, Guy Clarke, and EVC of NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, at the Commissioning of the GateWay Switching Centre in Abuja.

This followed the company’s successful roll out of its AirlinkTM wireless internet and MetrolinkTM broadband solutions in Lagos.“Your products and services are interesting and we will give you support to roll out to the benefit of your subscribers.

We hope that your services will be reliable and affordable to Nigerian subscribers and that the enterprises will be for the benefit of the subscribers and the nation. We wish you well,” Dr. Juwah said in a very short ceremony that took place at the GateWay installation in the Maitama district of Abuja.

Earlier, the company delegation, led by its Chief Executive Officer of GateWay Africa Business, Wally Beelder, and Managing Director of GateWay Business Nigeria, Guy Clarke, paid a visit to the NCC Headquarters where they made a presentation about the facilities being provided by the company in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano and Kaduna.

They told Dr. Juwah that Gateway Business’ broadband wireless access provides organizations with fast and secure broadband connectivity, for reliable last-mile service, without the risk of potential interruptions and downtime on a terrestrial (fibre) “local loop”. AirLinkTM or MetroLinkTM can be installed and activated in a single day, giving customers immediate connectivity.

Gateway Business Nigeria will roll out services across five more states — Benin, Abia, Onitsha, Enugu and Warri, while committing to complete roll out  in two more phases. This furthers Gateway Business’ drive to build a pan-African Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network that covers every major African city based on terrestrial (fibre) infrastructure with access to submarine cable.